The photo project of the artist Agdes Baghirzade titled “Baku now and then” is a comparative historical documentary chronicle of Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. The project covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. In her Baku project the author is using the materials from both the archives and private collections, comparing the buildings of today’s Baku with those captured – and in many cases still preserved and existing – in the old photographs.

17.00 Slava and Friends (Viro)Jazz from over the worldKoskenparras(45 min)

The Best contemporary dance performance of Russian National Theatre Award “Golden Mask” in 2016«Cafe Idiot» is a co-production of the Theatre Ballet Moscow and Alexander Pepelyaev, a famous name in Russian and European contemporary dance scene.

This performance is a collection of images, ideas and reflections, based on the novel “Idiot” by Fedor Dostoevsky. It is inspired by its intriguing essence and told in the language of contemporary dance and interactive graphic arts.

Movements are the main inspiration for this performance. Movements put together feeling of time-playing, untold stories, masks and plasticity of adventurous novel and antique carnival that you can hardly see through the curtain of novel.

”Cafe Idiot” is an excellent example of visual theater. One will not recognize the plot of ”Idiot” but will understand the ideas and feelings present in it. One will not recognize the characters but will unveil their duality.

The duality is also present in the name of performance itself. ”Cafe Idiot” named after both famous Russian novel and iconic visual theatre performance “Café Müller” created by legendary Pina Bausch.

The Seven Deadly Sins is a theme that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning `fallen man’s tendency to sin`. Through loving parody and well-choreographed slap stick comedy, the play grabs the young audience by the scruff of the neck and shakes it until it gets the message. LECTURE includes morals and music, but first and foremost it is a comedy. An educational, ironic farce with a purpose: the acute questioning of moral norms.

Teenagers, teachers and parents laugh together at the irredeemable childishness of adolescent behavior, and the well-meant stupidity of the adult characters. LECTURE not only sums up the zeitgeist, but criticizes it as well.

There is a region in Finland called Kainuu, a territory where The Ownkinders live. Are these people just like all the other hillbillies in the other middle-of-nowhere-places around the globe? Or do they have something special in their genes that makes them different from everyone else? An answer to this might hide in this 60-minute mixture of rootsy folk-rock music and warm-hearted stage comedy.

Pathetical play-laboratory ”Gobo. Digital glossary” is the collection of installations and mini-performanses in one piece.

The Beckettian clowning of the AKHE theatre company from Russia consists of a series of gags while employing l laboratory of curiouse mechanisms and experiments. Mechanical toys, miniature funicular railways, stuctures in which the proverbial domino piece sets into motion a process with an astomishing end, allattracts with their ingenuity and the artists’s original sense of humour. Ostensibly unconnected scenes depict the assorted states of Gobo, the titular protagonist, whose madcap interior can be described only with oneiric collages

About the show: Combining clownesque joy with jaw-dropping skill, a quartet of multi-talented virtuosos escapes the critical eye of their instructor and embarks on a musical journey from Tchaikovsky to Justin Timberlake, blues to latino. This simple story gains new dimensions as the boys combine a range of styles and skills to reinvent musical history and explore the seemingly infinite possibilities of their instruments. Heavily applauded by both the Russian press and audience, the MoscowBoys are ready to tackle the Tel-Aviv stage with their boundless energy and talents. Eclectic, whimsical and ever-surprising musical theatre.

About the company: Moscow Theatre L’Atelier is a producing company founded in 1993 by Elshan Mamedov who is now its artistic director. Mr Mamedov is PhD in art history. The main repertory is based on modern plays of French, U.S. and British playwrights. The actors who participate in the shows are Russian theatre and cinema\TV stars.

In 2012 the artistic director Elshan Mamedov and choreographer Igor Orshulyak brought up a new format of the musical show, which combines music, dance, pantomime, tricks. They called it ”Tapeur-show”. A casting process that lasted for several months left 4 candidates out of 90. After 3 years of success in Russia, the second show with the same cast was created and called ”MoscowBoys”.

On a string, the first collaboration between Minna Tervamäki and Kaari Martin, is an interpretation of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. A work of many contrasts, it juxtaposes Finnish and international, tradition and modernity, the sensitive and the demonic. The women approach Sibelius via the musicality and sensitivity of flamenco and the expressive means of contemporary ballet. According to them, the Sibelius Violin Concerto conveys its message with directness and honesty, and it has a timeless, rebellious attitude.

The special live music version of Tervamäki ́s ja Martin ́s choreography On a string brings together four leading artists in their field. In this version, the dancer étoile with the Finnish National Ballet Minna Tervamäki and contemporary flamenco’s visionary Kaari Martin are accompanied with
the renowned violist Minna Pensola and the renowned pianist Heini Kärkkäinen. Each interpreting Sibelius with their own means of expression they compose together a performance where physical movement constitutes an intrinsic part of the music.

This performance joins tradition and modernity, Finnishness and internationality, sensitivity and demonic. These performing women approach Sibelius through both musicality and sensitivity of flamenco and expressions of modern ballet. According to them, the Sibelius Violin Concerto speaks to them as it’s direct and honest and has a timeless, rebellious attitude.

The Sibelius Violin Concerto is familiar to all the four artists. Tervamäki’s and Martin’s choreography On a string premiered in 2010. The special live version of the work includes a rarely performed adaption of the Concerto that Sibelius made for a violin and a piano.

Finland’s Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) was one of the leading composers of the Romantic era in the arts lasting over 100 years. His influence on the history of Western music does, however, extend beyond the borders of stylistic periods. The Sibelius Violin Concerto has been recorded and performed more than any other Violin Concerto of the 20th century. Almost every violinist of distinction has performed it. The moods and tempos of the dramatic, subtle music swiftly change, and the tensions are strong. At the beginning of the present decade there were over 50 recordings available. On a string uses the highly rhythmic version of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra recorded under Leif Segerstam with Pekka Kuusisto as the soloist.